The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter s Daughter, And The...

For the past few decades, waves of immigrant families come to the United States in search of a new home. People from all over the world who have escaped their native country wanting to have jobs in order to support their family and live the â€Å"American Dream†. The U.S. Demographic History states, â€Å"In any event, 1965 initiated a second ‘Great Wave’ of mass immigration, which continues today. During the 1990s, legal immigration averaged 900,000 annually, increasing to about one million per year during the next decade.† Many of these immigrants of whom have came from the eastern hemisphere have believed that they will live a better life under the liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness that the United States can give them. While America has many things to offer for these new incoming families, this country also has cultural conflicts that clash between their natural traditions and modernity. In the novels, The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetterâ€℠¢s Daughter, and The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan creates the broken relationships of immigrant mothers and their â€Å"Americanized† daughters who struggle in social barriers they both face as they live in the new setting. Amy Tan analyzes mother-daughter relationships between character’s lovers and friends and how they develop over a course of unexpected events. Throughout The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan places all three books in California where the characters in each book have trouble inShow MoreRelatedsocial dimension of education2565 Words   |  11 PagesTECHNOLOGY Bangued Campus, Bangued Abra â€Å"The kitchen GOD’S wife† A BOOK REVIEW (‘A BOOK OF AMY TAN†) Prepared by; Maricel B, Dalingay BEED11-C Prepared for; Mr. Rommel Yahin Instructor 1. The author Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. In 1993, Tan s adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful. She has written